Rank #163
Patrick Collison
Net worth $17.5B
Payment software · Ireland
- Born
- Sep 09, 1988
- Age
- 37
- Source
- Payment software
- Residence
- San Francisco , California
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Drop Out, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Net worth over time
Biography
- Patrick Collison is the cofounder and CEO of Stripe, a company that lets businesses and individuals accept payments over the internet.
- Private investors valued Stripe at $159 billion in February 2026.
- Patrick and his brother John hatched the idea for Stripe while both were in college in Cambridge at MIT.
- Patrick handles engineering and serves as the public face of the company.
- An avid reader, Collison keeps hundreds of books on his shelves on topics including physics, feminism and literary criticism.
- The Collison brothers became teenage millionaires in 2008 when they sold their company Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million.
- Patrick and John took up coding as kids, competing against each other to master the craft.